Saint Augustine

Gray day but enjoyed viewing some more marshes and woods . All sorts of birds in big flocks. We saw many hawks and osprey as well as a bald eagle! Raining but we saw a fabulous rainbow as the day cleared a bit. Picked up a nice push from the tide and made almost 70 miles into St Augustine. Many miles of straight canal sailing are interspersed with a few sounds and inlets presenting some navigational challenges. Often we would follow a few sets of sea buoys when crossing sounds. When using the sea buoys we are most often leaving the harbor so the green marks are on the right but when we would reenter a river or landcut, the red markers needed to be on the right. Sometimes there are nuns and cans, sometimes there are daymarks. Sometimes the daymarks on stakes mark private channels. The ICW marks always have yellow reflective triangles and squares on them and they do clarify things but I think I need the large print edition. As we were entering St Augustine the charts said that nuns 58,58A, 58C, 58D and 58E would mark the channel entry. (I don't know why no B it just didn't show up on the chart) We saw 58 and 58 A , then we saw 60 . No problem things change. When we saw a nun marked 0 it was hard to take seriously. 0? Not on the chart so we started to cut it and watched the depth sounder go from 30 feet to 6 in short order . We honored the marker to get back into deep water. Passed under the Bridge of Lions and into St Augustine. This once beautiful bridge is under construction until 2010. It is covered with elaborate scaffolding and tugs ,barges and workers. I hope it turns out to be as impressive as it was. We are happy to be here and will go out to celebrate our anniversary. 32 years! If we can manage this live aboard stuff I think the marriage just might last!